China and the Iran war – a provisional assessment
China is weathering the war and turning crisis into influence
Destination Defence
Destination Defence is a new government attempt to intensify the militarisation of British society.
Review | Emergency Exits exhibition
The Imperial War Museum’s ‘Emergency Exits’ explores Britain’s violent retreat from empire and the brutality of colonial rule
Review | Lifeline to Freedom
Leftist Czech refugees to Britain in the 1930s had to cope with hostility from the British government, but also the zigzags of the Communist line laid down in Moscow.
The United States U-turns on Ukraine
The long term issues that underlie the shift in US policy on Ukraine
The cult of military service: Tim Walz as soldier-teacher
Placed in its historic context, the US National Guard is far from glamourous.
Sudanese dialogue and political processes at a time of war: people, participation, and power
Nada Wanni warns against letting elites keep control.
Aaron’s Sacrifice
‘He talked about the genocide in Gaza and refusing to be complicit in it. He also spoke of the ruling class normalising the kind of death he was about to show us.’
Learning from the Second International: a review of Reform, Revolution and Opportunism
Mike Taber’s new collection exposes fissures within the Second International.
Alchemy and imperial delusion: the ideological spell of nuclear power. Part 2
The uncounted costs of nuclear power
Alchemy and imperial delusion: the ideological spell of nuclear power. Part 1
Brian Parkin explores why nuclear power remains so important for Britain’s rulers, in the first part of a two-part article.
Inside the Ukrainian Resistance
Interview about the Ukrainian Resistance, the state of war, the dynamics of class struggle and popular consciousness, and the tasks of the international Left in building solidarity with Ukraine.
Russia’s war and the West
Gareth Dale responds to an article by Tom Bramble exploring the reasons for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
NATO: the West’s war machine
rs21 member Andy Gammon argues that solidarity with Ukrainians means calling for an end to NATO.
On the invasion of Ukraine
A statement from the rs21 Steering Group on the inter-imperialist war currently being waged in Ukraine.
Afghanistan: the end of the occupation
The fall of Kabul marks a decisive defeat for American power around the world.
Review | Sinews of War and Trade
Mykola Macke reviews an important book which bring together the history of development in the region with the parallel evolution of world shipping routes as the life-blood of world capitalism.
Review: A Jewish Communist in Weimar Germany
Merilyn Moos reviews a new biography of Werner Scholem, an uncompromising revolutionary to the end.
‘Dear Sisters of the Earth’: Peterloo bicentenary
Women were a particular target of the violence at Peterloo on 16 August 1819. We publish an extract from an address by the Manchester Female Reform Society delivered shortly before the massacre.
200 years after Peterloo, do we face a new wave of repression?
As we approach the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo massacre, Ian Allinson argues that the right are pressing Boris Johnson to introduce a new wave of repression.
Syria and US intervention
Listen to Omar Sabbour on the real nature of the US intervention in Syria and the implications for anti-imperialists and the left.
Hacking the Spectacle: an interview with Darren Cullen
Cullen uses the language of advertising to make art taking aim at militarism and consumerism
Diversify or Die: a new pamphlet from rs21
UK manufacturing workers must reject a continued dependency on defence contracts in favour of a re-dedication of industry to environmentally and socially beneficial production.
revolutionary reflections | Climate Change and Migration in the age of Imperialism’s four horsemen
How can we trace the interconnections between war, famine, pestilence and conquest that are being unleashed in a new form as the climate crisis unfolds?
A united front against US aggression: difficult but necessary
Rob Owen argues that revolutionaries need to engage with the anti-war movement that exists to build the one we need On Tuesday 4 April two U.S. warships fired 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at the Al Shayrat airfield in Syria. The airport was the base from which the Assad regime had carried out the Sarin gas attack […]
The counterrevolution crushes Aleppo
The Syrian regime and its Russian ally are in the last barbaric stages of an onslaught against Aleppo. Below we republish Ashley Smith’s analysis from the SocialistWorker.org website in the US. THE COMBINED forces of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, Russian air power and Iranian-backed Shia death squads are reconquering Eastern Aleppo, according to reports–and with it, the […]
Building an anti-war movement
Pete Cannell reflects on the debates surrounding Syria and suggests how we move forward.
The Somme: Remember…and explain
Ian Birchall reviews Neil Faulkner’s new pamphlet, Have You Forgotten Yet? The Truth about the Somme I happened to be on Waterloo Station on 1st July. When I saw dozens of young soldiers assembling, I wondered for a moment if our rulers had launched a military coup to reverse the referendum. Later I learned that it was […]